This course is taught using the GTI developed Active*Learn ™ training model. Consists of fast-paced learning, break-out sessions, team assignments, learn by doing. We have used this approach for over a year with superb student evaluations. The students learn by doing and enjoy the experience.

This course is available for On-Site Training only. We will bring this course to your agency or company. Contact Don Dickson, On-Site Training Manager at (301) 455-5633 or Don.Dickson@GovernmentTrainingInc.com

The goal of this training is to provide an understanding of the rules (FAR), protest case history (lessons-learned) and best practices of the source selection process for competitively negotiated acquisitions where selection is based on best value to the Government. However, many of the procedures discussed in this training would also be useful in other source selections. Best Value (http://www.arnet.gov/far/) is the expected outcome of an acquisition that, in the Government’s estimation, provides the greatest overall benefit in response to the requirement.

In negotiated acquisitions, best value can be obtained by using any one or a combination of source selection approaches. In different types of acquisitions, the relative importance of cost or price may vary. For example, in acquisitions where the requirement is clearly definable and the risk of unsuccessful contract performance is minimal, cost or price may play a dominant role in source selection. The less definitive the requirement, the more development work required, or the greater the performance risk, the more technical or past performance considerations may play a dominant role in source selection.

The course is directed at contracting, acquisition, program management and executive personnel.

There is no pre-requisite training – this course is open to experienced contracting professionals seeking an update and newly assigned personnel who will (or are) involved with source selections.

The role of checklists:

Each student will leave this training with extensive checklists for use throughout the source selection process. These checklists will include guidance on traps to avoid, lessons-learned and “must-do” tasks. The students will find these checklists to serve as valuable resources when they return to normal work assignments.

What you will learn

Discuss the steps in the source selection process

Plan a source selection – writing the source selection plan

Develop evaluation factors and scoring plans that will select the best value proposal